German parliamentary elections 2005 in the mirror of party manifestos

Abstract: "Five leading German political parties and their coalitions are evaluated with regard to party manifestos and results of the 2005 parliamentary elections. For this purpose, the party manifestos are converted into Yes/No answers to 95 topical questions (Relax the protection against dismissals? Close nuclear power plants? etc.). On each question, every party represents its adherents as well as those of the parties with the same position. Therefore, a party usually represents a larger group than its direct adherents. The popularity of a party is understood to be the percentage of the electorate represented, averaged on all the 95 questions. The universality of a party is the frequency of representing a majority of electors. The questions are considered either unweighted, or weighted by an expert, or weighted by the number of GOOGLE-results for given keywords (the more important the question, the more documents in the Internet). The weighting however plays a negligible role because the

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: Bundestagswahl 2005: Ergebnisse im Spiegel der Parteiprogramme
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource, 40 S.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: WSI-Diskussionspapier ; Bd. 139E

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Politik

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Düsseldorf
• (wann): 2006
• Urheber: Tangian, Andranik S.
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-219268
• Rechteinformation: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 25.03.2025, 13:44 MEZ